Bronze, as gunmetal, has good toughness and ductility. Even if it explodes. Most of them are bulging and cracked, and will not explode into many small pieces like pig iron. Can protect the gunner.
The reason why everyone loves bronze cast artillery is because it is safe and will not cause serious damage if the barrel is exploded. In this way, the gunner dares to use it boldly and confidently.
Similarly, such artillery is not strong enough. In order to allow camels to carry the load, the wall of the tube is also cast relatively thin. Only in this way can weight be reduced. So the barrel was flattened directly by the stone bullet.
In order to become stronger again, the Junggar people have made arduous efforts for more than a hundred years.
They stipulated that every ten households must save one pair of armor every year.
Each hundred households must buy or build three matchlock guns every year.
Every thousand households must cast one or two camel cannons every year. And purchase various supporting equipment and ammunition for one hundred firings.
They accumulated perseverance in this way, enriching the strength of their tribe bit by bit.
As of today, they finally have 30,000 armored cavalry and 5,000 gunmen. There are also three hundred camel cannons built by ourselves, as well as captured from the enemy and purchased from the Ottomans.
But now, the accumulation of several generations of hard work has been turned into a large piece of minced meat under the overwhelming impact of stone bullets.
In the first round of attacks, more than 300 people and more than 200 camels were killed. Destroyed more than thirty camel cannons.
Many injured people were rolling on the ground, wailing. The entire camel gun position was in a mess.
Heduo and Qin quickly got out from under the camel and shouted: "Retreat quickly, hurry up, lead the camel and run back. Others also run back. Hurry up."
He knew that it usually took a long time to prepare for the launch of a trebuchet, so he should take advantage of this gap to escape quickly. He himself grabbed a horse and got on it. He whipped the horse hard on the buttocks and galloped backwards.
He didn't get far. In just a minute, he heard bang bang bang again! the sound of.
He was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse. He knew that this was another launch in the city.
He did not expect that the rate of fire of these trebuchets was so terrifying, but he was surprised that there were so many trebuchets in the city that could be fired in rotation.
His horse rushed out with a whooshing sound under the whip. The moment his horse bolted out, a stone bullet almost grazed the right side of his horse's butt and hit the ground hard.
This is a one-pound cement prefabricated sphere. Because it is solid, like a spherical solid bullet, it will form a ricochet effect after landing. It bounced up on the ground and hit the back of a gunner who was running back.
Heduo and Qin heard a click. He couldn't help but feel excited all over.
It was the sound of a broken spine.
Seeing that the gunner was dead, he collapsed directly to the ground, and then was trampled by countless horse hooves and big feet.
"Adjust the range, 400 yards, launch." The observer on the platform released the data in semaphore.
Soon, the third round of launches came. Although, they had already pulled the camels and ran back. Still, Shi Danyun caught up with him and beat him again to the point of breaking his bones and tendons. People and camels fell to the ground with a crackle.
At this time, Heduo and Qin, who had abandoned the camel artillery team, had already run out of the range of the stone bullets. He was thankful in his heart for his decisiveness in escaping. He turned to look. The scene behind was almost like Shura hell.
Several camels had their limbs separated by the smash, and even had a big hole in their trunks. The broken limbs fell to the ground again
As the camel artillery troops fled, the trebuchets in the city constantly adjusted the impact points of their shots. Chase them and keep firing. Yang Fan's order was very clear, which was to shoot ten rounds.
Heduo and Qin wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but there was a loud bang and the fourth round of stone bullets came again. He opened his mouth in surprise. He didn't expect that this kind of trebuchet could shoot from such a long distance.
At this time, the trebuchets in the city had begun to reduce the weight of the stone bullets. This improves range. After all, if the weight of the stone is reduced to 50 kilograms, it can be thrown to a distance of 500 meters.
He Duo and Qin understood at this time that he could not outrun the speed of this trebuchet. He saw a huge stone in front of him, which was five meters high. He immediately abandoned his horse, turned over and hid behind the stone.
He knew that trebuchets all move in parabolas. In other words, the trajectory is arc-shaped, and the angle before landing is inclined. This big stone can block stone bullets. After all, the trebuchet is not a mortar. Don't let the projectile fall vertically into the target area.
Heduo and Qin held their heads and curled up, trying to reduce their area as much as possible. At the same time, stick tightly to the stone behind you.
He looked in horror at his abandoned war horse and the camel artillerymen who were pulling their camels and running back desperately. They were constantly inundated by barrages that were adjusted to cover the range, and every time hundreds of people were smashed into meat pies.
At this time, although the cover of the camel artillery was lost, the dense infantry siege group under the city had already arrived at the city.
"The camel cannon has been dealt with. Let the regiment trainers fight back immediately." Yang Fan ordered.
Several strong men immediately began to beat the war drums, and the sound of "dong-dong-dong" was heard. This is an order for them to attack the siege army under the city immediately.
Each of these regiment trainers now had a Mongolian riding bow, which Yang Fan had captured along the way.
Many of these people don't know how to use bows and arrows, they can just shoot arrows. Yang Fan no longer cares whether they know how to use bows and arrows. Anyone who can draw the bow will be given a bow and a hundred arrows.
Anyway, there are dense crowds down there. Whether you throw it or shoot it directly is up to you. Just shoot out a hundred arrows.
It's useless to say anything else to these newbies. The officer checked to see who had not shot all the arrows. They can only be managed by objectives. As for whether he was hit or not, he didn't care.
Fortunately, the quality of Monan Mongolia has dropped drastically. They all use riding bows with relatively low draw power, and they can still draw them.
These regiment drills did not look down. They just took advantage of the camel cannon to stop firing, leaned out of the crenel, and shot arrows with all their might. Not aiming at all. There’s a huge crowd of people down there, so what’s the point? Just cum and that's it.
The shooting speed of the bow is very fast, and an expert can shoot more than thirty arrows in one minute. Yang Fan's group trainers can also shoot twenty arrows in one minute. I just don’t know where I’m going.
Soon, whoosh whoosh! The sound of densely packed bowstrings resounding, and the bows and arrows flew into the sky one after another. Then a parabola descends toward the dense crowd.
